![]() ![]() ![]() The AS mixer, routed into NYSTHI’s multitrack recorder. You can muck about with knobs, find something magical, and record it – and then not worry about going on to do something else later. This is creatively liberating for the same reason it’s actually fun to have a multitrack tape recorder in the same studio as a modular, speaking of vintage gear. It allows you to create stems you can then mix in another host, or turn into samples (or, say, load onto a drum machine or the like), making this a great sound design tool and sound starter. The multitrack is the one I use the most. Multitrack Recorder is an multitrack recorder with 4- or 8-channel modes. Type “recorder” into the search box for modules, and you’ll see different options options from NYSTHI – current at least as of this writing.Ģ Channel MasterRecorder is a simple stereo recorder.Ģ Channel MasterReocorder 2 adds various features: monitoring outs, autosave, a compressor, and “stereo massaging.” They’re free, though – get ready, there’s a hell of a lot of them.īig thanks to chaircrusher for this tip and some other ones that informed this article – do go check his music. What you’ll need to make this work is the free NYSTHI modules for VCV Rack, available via Rack’s plug-in manager. A free recording solution inside VCV Rack Running Rack standalone means you don’t have to worry about overhead from the host, or its audio driver settings, or anything like that. Two, the big ongoing disadvantage of software modular is that it’s still pretty CPU intensive – sometimes unpredictably so. There’s something nice about being able to just keep this record module handy and grab a weird sound or nice groove at will, without having to shift to another tool. Those are all good solutions, so why would you bother with a module inside the rack? In the meanwhile, VCV Rack is already capable of routing audio into a DAW or multitrack recorder – via the existing (though soon-to-be-deprecated) VST Bridge, or via inter-app routing schemes on each OS, including JACK. That functionality is coming soon to a VCV Rack update, too – see my recent write-up on that. But that same approach can be liberating even in the digital age – and it’s a perfect match for the open VCV Rack software modular platform.Ĭompeting modular environments like Reaktor, Softube Modular, and Cherry Audio Voltage Modular all run well as plug-ins. In the original modular synth era, your only way to capture ideas was to record to tape. ![]()
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